Boardsmill Stud has announced the passing of Champion Racehorse and multiple Grade 1 sire KALANISI at the age of 27. The dual Group 1 winner was standing at Boardsmill since 2008 having been acquired by the Flood family from his breeder HH Aga Khan. He originally stood at his breeders’ Giltown Stud having retired there … Read more
COURT CAVE sired yet another Cheltenham Festival winner this year in the shape of PREMIER MAGIC, the impressive winner of the St. James’s Place Festival Challenge Cup Open Hunters Chase. The most prestigious Hunters Chase of the season, run over the same course and distance as the Gold Cup, this race is viewed by most … Read more
MOUNT NELSON’s first crop sired at Boardsmill Stud have been very well received at the store sales so far in 2021. At Doncaster in May, he sired the second most expensive store in the Spring Sale as Tom Malone and Paul Nicholls went to £150,000 to secure a half-brother to Charbel, winner of the Grade … Read more
KALANISI has a long and successful history with his Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale graduates with some of his best progeny to date selling at Fairyhouse in June. Grade 1 Challow Novices’ Hurdle Winner Barters Hill (pictured above) and Brain Power, winner of the Grade 1 American Grand National, are two of the most notable names … Read more
COURT CAVE’s best store sales results over the years have come at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale with his most expensive three-year-olds all going under the hammer here. At the 2018 renewal he achieved his best store price of €120,000 when Gordon Elliott bought Fortbarrington Stud’s gelding out of Jessica Harrington’s County Hurdle Winner and … Read more
The exciting Beauport, a Grade 3 Winner over hurdles for Nigel Twiston-Davies last season, is the most high-profile horse from CALIFET’s Irish-bred crops so far. The five-year-old was sold at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale in 2019 and is the most expensive graduate of the sale by his sire, whose oldest Irish-bred runners are just … Read more
MOUNT NELSON’s first crop from his time here at Boardsmill Stud is one of the strongest, both on paper and numerically, of any stallion represented at this year’s Goffs Land Rover Sale. His Land Rover class of 2021 numbers 31, and reflects the quality of his NH runners so far headed by the dual Cheltenham … Read more
KALANISI has been an excellent stallion for us, a reliable source of Cheltenham winners and top-class performers and at the age of 25 he covered a select book of mares this year. The most expensive Goffs Land Rover Sale graduate by Kalanisi sold last year when Ken Parkhill’s homebred half-brother to last year’s Cheltenham Champion … Read more
COURT CAVE has enjoyed a long and successful history with the Goffs’ Land Rover Sale and a significant number of his best performers are graduates of the sale. They include the Grade 1 Cheltenham Festival winner Willoughby Court, who was sold by Pine Tree Stud to Highflyer Bloodstock at the 2014 renewal and is one … Read more
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